Nikolai Kapustin
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
